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Issue No 147
Hong Kong trainees visit
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Presentations with power
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May 14-27, 1996
by Trina McLellan
Royal Australian Navy officers will s o o n b e r e c e i v i n g G r a d u a t e Certificates in Management from the Q u e e n s l a n d U n i v e r s i t y o f Technology thanks to an innovative partnership formalised last week by Rear Admiral Peter Briggs and QUT Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Coaldrake.
QUT’s Faculty of Business won the tender to provide special postgraduate management instruction to officers studying at the RAN Staff College at HMAS Penguin on Sydney’s North Shore from four other short-listed universities.
The Graduate Certificate in Management will form part of an intensive staff course for middle- ranked officers from the Royal Australian Navy as well as a small number of officers from other Australian Defence Forces and overseas.
According to the RANSC’s Commander Tom Steward, the Navy has run such courses since the Staff College was commissioned in 1979, incorporating management training, personal development and communications, as well as defence and strategic studies.
“While we’ve considered our overall course content and standards satisfactory, over recent years we’ve started to consider ways of continuously improving the standard of our management education,”
Commander Steward explained.
“We also took note of the recent Karpin Report which suggested Australia’s management education and practices were in a pretty sad state.
“These two elements were catalysts for us to look more closely at what we could do to ensure our Navy officers would be well placed to meet the changing management environment over the coming decades.”
Commander Steward said the RANSC was the first staff college to go down the route of establishing such a close educational partnership with a university.
“One of the reasons we decided to go with a recognised tertiary institution
Ceremony seals historic Navy-QUT ‘partnership’
be given credit for their earlier subjects.”
Commander Steward said the Navy believed QUT would add significant enhancements to the management component of its training.
“We chose QUT because of the package it proposed and the perceived attitude of QUT and its staff towards
being flexible and appreciating our needs as well as the strict academic requirements of the university,” he said.
“From the very beginning, I was impressed by QUT’s attitude to the whole program.”
Australian Services Union (ASU) Branch President Ms Janice Mayes congratulated QUT on its
“good sense to not be the test case to undermine employee wages and conditions”.
“We would also congratulate the university’s union members who took the effort to inform themselves about the issue and make a stand,” Ms Mayes said.
After the draft minimum rates award had been lodged with the Industrial Relations Commission in mid-February, ASU delegates circulated flyers to non-academic QUT staff. The notices outlined the proposed award which, the union said, placed conditions and future wages under threat.
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personnel to go on to higher study,”
he explained.
He said the partnership would deliver a Graduate Certificate in Management for naval officers who could then obtain accreditation for at least some of the units studied should they wish to pursue higher degrees.
Other arrangements, he said, would eventually be put in place for personnel wishing to follow further study in areas such as defence studies, international relations or strategic studies.
“QUT has said that any officers completing their graduate certificate and wanting to move on to a graduate
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Vice-Chancellor Professor Dennis Gibson has withdrawn QUT’s name from a draft industrial award submitted by the Australian Higher Education Industrial Association (AHEIA) to the Industrial Relations Commission.
Professor Gibson said he understood the draft award was a general award that would lay down a “safety-net”
across the higher education sector below which institutions were not to go in negotiating their own awards. It was to be followed by a specific QUT award based on QUT’s conditions of employment, he said.
“Submitting the general award was a sector-wide exercise rather than an
attempt to change QUT’s current or future employment conditions,”
Professor Gibson said.
“But the document forwarded to the commission included QUT’s name and listed conditions quite different from our existing employment conditions.
“Despite the fact that QUT had made it clear to the ACTU that there was no intention to change QUT’s salary and other conditions, some unions took the opportunity to create their own version of events,” the Vice-Chancellor said.
Professor Gibson formally advised staff early last week that he had instructed AHEIA to withdraw the award.
QUT’s established conditions, he said, had been agreed through the Enterprise Bargaining process and had been
documented in the university’s manual of policies and procedures.
Professor Gibson reassured QUT general staff their existing, documented conditions would continue.
“Any changes that we want to reach agreement on will go through the Enterprise Bargaining process.
“Our conditions have been developed over many years and I believe they provide a firm foundation for future negotiations. My understanding of change is that, whenever there’s change, conditions generally get better — they don’t get worse,” Professor Gibson said.
In an electronic mail message to general staff last week, the Vice- Chancellor apologised for the mix-up between QUT and AHEIA.
Professor Gibson said QUT had a fine record as a fair and reasonable employer and staff enjoyed top conditions of employment.
He said he did not know what steps AHEIA would take in its attempts to rationalise the interim Higher Education General and Salaried Staff Award.
V-C withdraws support for template industrial award
by Carmen Myler
Students light up
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QUT’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Peter Coaldrake and Rear Admiral Peter Briggs discuss the new partnership as Commander Tom Steward, left, and RANSC Director Captain Mike Pike, right, stand by
Union congratulates ‘good sense’
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From the Inside by David Hawke
Vice-Chancellor’s comment
In terms of public approval, academics rate with politicians and child molesters.
After reading Associate Professor Marc Robinson’s article (IQ 16/4/96) I think I can understand why.
He uses all those high-minded phrases so beloved of academics such as “any reasoned analysis would show”, and then proceeds to develop a very narrow, poorly reasoned argument to justify a preconceived conclusion, viz., that debt is good and necessary.
On this basis, John Cain should have been the most popular Premier in the western world!
He sprinkles his commentary with big words (a must for academics) like inter-generational equity which purport to show great scholarship, but don’t really add to the argument at all.
He accuses others of doing what he does himself. For instance, he accuses me of “zealotry” and “a misguided obsession with debt”, yet he is the one with an obsessional fixation on debt. I can’t ever remember having one.
Mr Robinson has this quaint notion that the Goss Government lost power because of an obsession with debt elimination. What nonsense.
We have had a thousand post mortems since the last election, we have had thousands of letters and suggestions and pieces of advice, but the only person who has ever suggested that we lost power because we reduced debt is Mr Robinson. Perhaps he’s right and the rest of the world is wrong — another common trait for an academic.
But the worst crime that Mr Robinson commits for an academic, is that his argument is very confused and illogical.
On the one hand he talks about Goss debt zealotry and being ultra conservative (the ultimate put down from an academic) and then proceeds to try to prove that we were actually deep into debt and that I was deluding myself in thinking otherwise.
He implied somehow we were laundering borrowings through our Government enterprises.
As far as this allegation is concerned, I would remind Mr Robinson that the measure of net debt includes all of the debt held by our public trading enterprises
— and over the six years, Queensland’s net debt reduced by $6.2 billion.
We did indeed restructure the debt of our public trading enterprises in order
that they would have a more commercial debt structure (I note that the benefits of this also mystify Mr Robinson but then commerciality has always mystified academics).
But, on the fundamental issue of debt, Mr Robinson still harbours that quaint notion that somehow you can spend more if you use debt. In fact the opposite is the case — you ultimately spend less by at least the value of real interest rates.
I have said a hundred times that the Goss Government never had a debt- reduction policy. Debt reduction was merely an outcome of our financial management strategies — i.e., we raised debt only for income-producing assets and only to the extent that the revenue stream serviced the debt. All social expenditure was funded from the Budget, i.e., principally from the tax stream.
If it does not generate an income stream, then debt has to be serviced (interest and principal) from the Budget
— there is nowhere else.
Mr Robinson’s concept of inter- generational equity, it seems, is to make the kids pay for our spending.
There is one fact of life that every government should face up to — the only way you can increase social spending in a consistent way is to increase revenue i.e., taxes. It is a dangerous illusion to think that expenditure can be increased in a sustainable way, or in absolute terms, by using more debt.
And the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Queenslanders were not disadvantaged by our financial management policies.
Over the six years of the Goss Government, social spending increased by 39% and infrastructure spending by 25% — both in real terms.
Queensland’s estimated per capita spending on infrastructure in 1995-96 is $997, compared to $802 in the other states.
I know that students at a university need to be exposed to a wide range of theoretical views.
I just hope that there is someone putting the case for a little rigour and discipline — even in public sector finances.
Keith De Lacy Member for Cairns (and former Treasurer of Queensland)
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DITORby Carmen Myler
Future urban development on Christmas Island is safe, in spite of elevated levels of natural radiation, according to a report by an environmental research team.
However, the report’s authors have recommended future developments take certain precautions to ensure continued safety.
Christmas Island, an isolated sea mountain with a population of about 2,500, is an Australian Territory located 2,600km north-west of Perth and 450km south of Jakarta.
The report — compiled by QUT’s Centre for Medical and Health Physics, the Environmental Research Institute of the Supervising Scientist and the Office of the Supervising Scientist — was sponsored by the Territories Office of the Department of Environment, Sport and Territories.
It comes in the centenary year of the discovery of radiation and the research team behind this report was led by QUT’s School of Physics lecturer Dr Riaz Akber.
The team visited Christmas Island last November and December to examine the origin of radioactivity and any consequent considerations for development on the island, which has become a growing tourist attraction.
Dr Akber said the team found elevated levels of naturally occurring radiation on the island due to the presence of phosphate- bearing rocks which contained concentrations of uranium higher than the Australian average.
“Radioactivity is there, but not because of any anthropogenic activity such as mining — it is present there quite naturally.
Although the island has a history of mining operation, the mining is for natural rock phosphates and is generally not responsible for the elevated levels of radioactivity on the island,” he said.
Dr Akber’s research team measured radon and gamma radiation dose rates in the soil on Christmas Island to determine if they were a hazard.
“The measurements indicated that some precautions should be undertaken in the building styles,” Dr Akber said. “The soils available on the island vary in their radiological content, so we are recommending that soils with a lower radiological content be used in the base of the buildings.”
Dr Akber said his team also proposed ventilation characteristics for some of the buildings and recommended a further survey of radon concentrations in different types of dwellings on the island.
He said the further survey was recommended because his team’s study was short-term and site-specific, and radon
Environmental research report clears radiation fears for Christmas Island
“Being located away from any other mass of land and being somewhat elevated in radioactivity, Christmas Island provides an ideal situation for scientists to assess radiological impact.
“The knowledge gained from Christmas Island can be applied to other parts of this scientific area, particularly the rehabilitation of radiologically contaminated sites,” he said.
Dr Akber and his colleagues will share their knowledge about their research at two workshops in June, SPERA96 — the 4th South Pacific Environmental Radioactivity Association workshop in Darwin — and the Radiological Aspects of the Rehabilitation of Contaminated Sites workshop in Darwin and Jabiru.
QUT is helping to organise both workshops and Dr Akber said scientists from around the world would come to the two workshops.
“These workshops are likely to develop further co-operation and interaction between Australian scientists and scientists from other parts of the South-Pacific region, as well as from countries in Asia and Europe,” Dr Akber said.
behaviour was affected by weather conditions, dwelling design and soil types.
Dr Akber said the relationship between radioactivity and people who were exposed to it was a complex one.
It was determined by many factors, including time of occupancy, the demographic nature of the site and lifestyle, he said.
“The radiological impact of any radioactive material depends upon the movement of radioactivity from its original source through certain pathways to humans.
“That could be through atmospheric pathways, such as a transfer of dust or through the movement of water or eating contaminated food.
“The radioactive levels at Christmas Island are such that it’s unlikely that high radiation doses will be received by people.
The levels are not high to a degree that in any way can influence tourist activities in the area or the islander lifestyle,” he said.
Dr Akber said scientists could learn much from Christmas Island in terms of assessment of the impact of contaminated sites, especially radiological impacts.
Facing funding cuts
Dr Riaz Akber examines a blowhole on the island during the research project . . . further study of radon conentrations recommended years and successful universities
are not as dependent on Commonwealth funding.
Other significant funding sources have also emerged.
Students now make a contribution to their education through HECS and universities are much better at earning income, through research, consultancy and course fees.
At QUT, as much as 45 per cent of this year’s $250 million income will come from external earnings which, for a number of years, have been growing much faster than our government grant.
On current projections we’ll be 50-50 government/non-government income by the year 2000.
Universities with entrepreneurial skills will cope with funding cuts by increasing efficiency and income from external sources — research, consultancy, continuing education and fees for services.
In the past decade, we’ve demonstrated that organisations and individuals will invest in higher education where they can see benefits to themselves.
QUT, with its real world links and commitment to client service, will prosper in the new Australian higher education environment where institutions rely more and more on their service to customers and their capacity to earn.
Professor Dennis Gibson The university sector is buzzing at
the moment with rumours of cutbacks in funding in the August Federal Budget having a drastic effect on the services universities provide.
Talk like this bears little relation to our actual financial position or to the likely future of the higher education system.
Universities have always been funded triennially by the Commonwealth.
Courses are at least three years long and institutions are committed to a three-year planning horizon.
While funding cuts may be on the way, governments have always recognised the long lead times we face.
Australian higher education has grown remarkably in the past 10
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Hong Kong language teacher trainees sit in on QUT classes
by Carmen Myler
A new teacher education program at QUT is giving trainee teachers from Hong Kong the chance to practise their English and learn more about Australia’s culture and education system.
The director of the Supplementary Teacher Education Program (STEP), School of Language and Literacy Education lecturer Dr Penny McKay, said the program would help develop the students’ knowledge and skills in teaching English.
Dr McKay’s team is hosting a month-long visit to QUT by second- year Bachelor of Education students from Hong Kong University who specialise in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL).
Dr McKay said all TESOL students from Hong Kong University had travelled to different parts of the English-speaking world as part of their degree. QUT was hosting a group of 15, she said.
“We have TESOL lectures for the students every morning — what we’re trying to do in those lectures is familiarise them with what’s happening in Australia and draw comparisons between teaching in Hong Kong and here, and hopefully build up their understandings and skills in teaching,” she said.
Visiting students Connie Chau and Hong Chung Lui said they hoped they would learn much about Australian culture and the education system while they were here.
“I want to learn more about the education system, the way teachers here teach people coming from other
countries, how to teach and to train myself to understand different accents,” Mr Lui said.
Dr McKay said an important part of the students’ visit was that they were staying in Homestay programs, living with Australian families.
The students said they enjoyed the Homestay arrangement because it gave them an insight into what life in Australia was really like as well as the opportunity to speak English all the time.
“We want to speak in English and think in English. In Hong Kong, I try very hard to think in English and it’s hard, but here I have the chance to completely think in English because I don’t have to speak Chinese. So, I think in English; I do in English; and I speak in English,” Mr Lui said.
Working with Dr McKay, QUT masters graduate Semmi Sin, a former lecturer from Hong Kong and Macau Universities, said she was using her experience with Australian and Chinese students to co-ordinate the program from day to day.
“I have designed the program to address the special needs of Chinese students studying issues associated with learning a second language,” Ms Sin said.
“STEP is the first program of its kind at QUT. We have put a lot of effort into making it a success and strengthening our ties with Hong KongUniversity,” she said.
As part of experiencing Australian culture and education, the students will embark on daily excursions after class.
The excursions will include visits to Dreamworld, Movieworld, the Big Pineapple, the Sciencentre,
Underwater World, Lone Pine Sanctuary, the Wool Shed, Mt Coot- tha Botanic Gardens and South Bank.
Students will also experience shopping at Indooroopilly and a barbecue at Kangaroo Point as well as visits to primary and secondary schools, libraries and a language- teaching resource centre.
Dr McKay said the visiting students would meet many of QUT’s
own Bachelor of Education (TESOL) students as they sat in on lectures.
Two Master of Education (TESOL) students from QUT, Nina Quince and Marcel Creed, will accompany the visiting students on excursions and share their own experiences of education in Australia.
Dr McKay said she hoped to bring more students from Hong Kong and
other Asian countries to Australia through the program.
Thailand and Japan had already expressed some interest, she said.
“What we’re doing now is seeing how we go with this one, finding out what the strengths and weaknesses are, and then we will advertise more because we can put this program on at any time with groups from different countries,” she said.
Two of the visiting Hong Kong trainee teachers . . . Hong Chung Lui (aka "Elvis") and Connie Chau
One idea drives Jude’s art exploration
“I’ve only ever really explored one idea,” award-winning artist Jude Kentish told eager QUT visual arts students at a recent talk.
And that idea — or body of thought, explored through six years of work — has culminated in Breath Carapace, the piece which won Ms Kentish the
$50,000 1996 Moët & Chandon Australian Art Foundation Fellowship and a chance to further explore her
“idea” in France.
“I wanted to communicate to students that, in a thorough examination of an idea, you can hardly ever finish with it,” Ms Kentish said.
“The focus of my work has remained really constant. I am engaged with the idea of practice as research, of studio work as a doing-thinking research.
“My art surrounds a central idea of
‘working’ being a possible opening up of ‘thinking’, for finding a visual language,” she said, “where breath, as an experienced metaphor, for example, could lead to some sort of understanding of the relationships between mind, body and possibly soul.”
Ms Kentish has been a part-time lecturer in QUT’s School of Visual Arts for a year and worked as a demonstrator and tutor for two years before that. She graduated from QUT in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Arts — Honours).
On June 22, Ms Kentish leaves for France, where she will spend one year in the painting studio on the grounds of Dom Perignon’s Abbey at Hautvillers in the Champagne district.
At the end of this sabbatical, she will exhibit her works at a leading Paris gallery.
“I’m looking at (the trip) as being a focused research year, in terms of both practice and travelling,” Ms Kentish explained.
“I’m particularly interested in exploring mosaic works — such as the Islamic mosaics — because of their use of patterning and repetition across continuous wall surfaces,” she said.
Much of Ms Kentish’s work is in the form of repeated fragments of an image printed in multiple-page format.
The artist said she liked working with this multi-page format because she could take her work down, stack it away or rearrange the components, rather than permanently hanging it in one fixed configuration.
“It’s about not wanting to be fixed, not wanting ideas to be too concrete — I like to keep the work open to development and change,” she said.
Ms Kentish said her techniques had changed over time, particularly with the integration of technology.
“I never went into the computer lab as a student, but then I found computers
to be an appropriate way to play with aspects of my work,” she said.
With the use of both the computer and photocopier, her work spans from the intimate and small-scale, to the large public format as in Breath Carapace, which is a two-metre 64-page computer- mediated photocopy image.
The Moët & Chandon exhibition, featuring Breath Carapace, will tour State galleries throughout the year. It has already visited Melbourne and Brisbane, and is due to go on to Adelaide and Sydney.
— Carmen Myler
Moët & Chandon fellowship winner Jude Kentish contemplates her upcoming trip to France
Staff and students were shocked to hear of the recent passing of Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering senior lecturer Dr Dayal Abeyasekere.
Dr Abeyasekere, 57, suffered a heart attack and died suddenly on April 29.
He was held in high regard by his colleagues, including Neil Bergmann, the acting Head of the School of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering.
“All those who knew Dayal appreciated his enthusiasm for teaching, his concern for students and his commitment to the academic excellence of QUT,” Mr Bergmann said.
Dr Abeyasekere was described by the Director of the Signal Processing Research Centre Professor Boualem Boashash, as “an esteemed colleague, a humanitarian and a great Australian”.
“His contribution to our academic, social and cultural life will be greatly missed,” Professor Boashash said.
He said colleagues had already raised $10,000 towards a $25,000 annual scholarship to remember Dr Abeyasekere and enquiries about the fund should be directed to Ms Tanya Vernon at [email protected].
Vale Dr Abeyasekere
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Video training package helps puts power into QUT presentations
Team approach for weight management
Less than a year after its opening, members of the public as well as QUT staff and students wanting to address obesity issues are heading for the School of Human Movement S t u d i e s ’ W e i g h t M a n a g e m e n t Clinic.
Associate Professor Andrew Hills said the clinic’s exercise scientists were working closely with patients’
general practitioners to offer a c o m b i n e d a p p r o a c h t o w e i g h t management.
“We have a treatment team for each client, which comprises the general practitioner, who has a specific interest in obesity, and our exercise scientists, who are trained i n e x e r c i s e p r e s c r i p t i o n , ” h e explained.
“Our brief, in keeping with QUT’s goals, is to provide a service to our community, to foster research and t o se r v e a s a c l inic a l t e a c hi ng facility.”
B a s e d a t K e l v i n G r o v e i n O B l o c k , t h e c l i n i c c o n d u c t s p r o g r a m s w h i c h i n v o l v e assessments of fitness and body c o m p o s i t i o n , p r e s c r i p t i o n o f a p e r s o n a l i s e d e x e r c i s e p r o g r a m , lifestyle counselling and medical monitoring of weight loss.
“The program runs across a six- m o n t h p e r i o d a n d t h e m e d i c a l component is bulk-billed,” he said.
“We’re also negotiating with various private health insurers to arrange rebates on the exercise consultation fees which, for 10 visits, cost $275 in total or $250 if paid up front.
“All we need from new patients is a referral from their general practitioner.”
Professor Hills said the aim of the consultations was to enhance a patient’s health by improving fitness through a better body composition and, where appropriate, lower body weight.
“Our treatment is based on the philosophy that dietary restriction
— in the absence of physical activity
— can have serious drawbacks for the body composition of patients and the long-term maintenance of weight loss,” he explained.
According to Professor Hills, clinic appointments are usually held on a Thursday and parking permits can be arranged when appointments are made.
Anyone interested in contacting the clinic can do so on (07) 3864 3286.
ASDU's Dr Yoni Ryan at her desk shows how easy it is to access the Presenting with Powerpoint video package
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Ms Mayes said features of the draft minimum rates award had included:
• abolition of paid maternity leave;
• a reduction in annual leave loading for some staff, sick leave and casual pay rates;
• a longer working week for general staff, over a greater span of hours; and
• a reduction in salary scales of between $1,800 and $4,000 a year (which would affect new appointments or transfers after the award came into being).
In a motion passed at a stop-work meeting of general staff on April 30, union members agreed to work to rule (i.e., observing a 36.25 hour working week with no unpaid overtime), to only undertake tasks as required in their job descriptions and to attend required stop-work meetings.
Staff also agreed not to answer phones on May 3 and to re-direct their calls to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the Acting Registrar and the managers of staff relations and finance.
Although AHEIA has been instructed to withdraw QUT’s name from the draft award, Ms Mayes said the ASU still had the issue of legislation to deal with, in particular convincing the Federal Government to leave wages and conditions alone.
She said the ASU would continue to pursue its 15 per cent Enterprise Bargaining pay rise claim for general staff.
“While their colleagues in the Australian Public Service have had pay rises totalling 15.4 per cent over the past five years, general staff at universities have only had an increase of 4.9 per cent,” she said.
. . . Non-academic union congratulates ‘good sense’
by Trina McLellan With technological and software
improvements over the past decade has come an ability for teachers and lecturers to more easily prepare a higher grade of visual aids for their students.
But quite often, according to the Academic Staff Development Unit’s Dr Yoni Ryan, educators either don’t realise just how easy the process now is or they don’t recognise the real improvement in learning outcomes brought about by effective overhead transparencies (OHTs) and 35mm slides.
Dr Ryan, a lecturer in higher education, has recently been part of a QUT team which has set out to rectify those shortcomings with a new educational video, Presenting with Powerpoint.
The video package — a collaborative effort by ASDU, ETV, Audio-Visual Services, Computing Services, School of Life Science and QUT students — was launched earlier this year and gives easy-to-follow tips on using QUT’s preferred presentation software, Powerpoint.
The 21-minute video steps through the stages of preparing clear OHTs and slides which effectively communicate the lecturer’s course content to audiences of varying sizes.
Design elements, layout, typography and other presentational hints are given by a number of communication experts and a hands-on instructional session shows what results the user will get by following basic manoeuvres.
“Staff wishing to install Powerpoint on QUT-based machines can contact Computing Services and they will be
provided with the software for the cost of $40 per installation,” Dr Ryan explained, “and for more details, staff should contact their Faculty Liaison And Consulting representative.
“So staff can be up and running with Powerpoint in a couple of hours for their basic needs. After mastering the basics, should they want to learn more advanced features, all they have to do is attend one of the two-hour Powerpoint courses run from time to time by Computing Services.”
Dr Ryan said colour overhead transparencies or 35 mm slides could be output by Audio-Visual Services or at any library, while black and white transparencies (which are produced on special OHT film) could be printed by most laser printers.
On the other hand, she said, if people wanted to present in a media-equipped lecture theatre — or MELT — they could simply put their presentation on a laptop and plug it in when they arrived at the lecture theatre, projecting the computer image onto a large-format screen.
With the fully electronic presentation, costs could be kept to a minimum because there was no need for consumables, Dr Ryan explained.
The Presenting with Powerpoint package comes complete with a handy booklet which reinforces the main points on the video and a diskette with two different templates especially designed for use at QUT (one with a corporate logo and one without).
“We have placed copies with each of the university’s libraries which can be taken out on loan or copies can be bought from ASDU for just $13,” Dr Ryan said.
Special portable desktop video viewers could also be loaned on all three campuses via Audio-Visual Services, she said.
“This is the best way to view the video, because you can work alongside during Gareth Dowding’s instructional session,”
Dr Ryan said.
And for lecturers who are still not convinced they need to use more professional presentation techniques, even when they use Powerpoint, a number of students interviewed at the start of the video gave some frank feedback.
Several criticised presentations where too much was crammed onto one OHT or slide as well as the use of print that was too small to read.
“If you’re sitting in a lecture theatre with 300 other students, you are not going to call out that you can’t make out a sentence,” one student pointed out.
Another acknowledged that, while some lecturers were using Powerpoint,
“it’s not much use if they race through a presentation, virtually on fast-forward, because it’s too hard to follow”.
Others said they knew if presenters used Powerpoint they could print out notes, but they rarely did, which meant students were flat out keeping pace taking notes and copying illustrations.
Another said such notes would be an invaluable backup for those who are coming to grips with the English language.
. . . Ceremony seals historic Navy-QUT ‘partnership’
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QUT’s Graduate School of Business Associate Professor Tim Robinson negotiated the ground-breaking educational partnership with the help of his colleague, School of Management lecturer Paul Davidson.
Professor Robinson said a group of QUT staff would redevelop and deliver specific aspects of the RANSC course.
Over the next six months Professor Robinson and Mr Davidson will work closely with the RAN to provide training for its Directing Staff who deliver other components of the staff course and act as tutors throughout the course.
Professor Robinson said that, from early next year, QUT staff would deliver lectures in four key areas — management, communication and current trends, human resource management and organisational behaviour.
“The contract will run until the middle of 1998 and, following the initial six months of planning and preparation, four or five of our faculty staff will deliver three blocks of
(L-R) QUT lecturer Paul Davidson, RANSC's Commander Tom Steward, Rear Admiral Briggs, Capt. Mike Pike and QUT Graduate School of Business' Professor Tim Robinson
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“General staff wages at QUT are getting left behind by inflation and they have not achieved wage increases in line with other industries.
“These workers deserve a pay rise.
Their hard work and improved productivity are two of the reasons why higher education has expanded in Australia,” Ms Mayes said.
—Carmen Myler
lectures during each of the three following semesters,” he explained.
Professor Robinson said he believed QUT’s reputation for delivering practical education was probably a strong factor in the university winning the tender.
“We deliver a number of full-fee- paying Graduate Certificate in Management training courses each year, most on our campuses but, increasingly, we are delivering them on-site for clients as well,” he said.
“Because we offer a high degree of flexibility with such programs, our courses are proving popular with local agencies like SEQEB, the Brisbane North Regional Health Authority and CITEC.”
In 1995, QUT had more than 350 students enrolled in Graduate Certificate in Management courses, with almost 160 graduating at the end of the year.
Majors offered include accounting, arts administration, fundraising, human resource management, management, marketing, strategic management, and writing, editing and publishing.
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“For many children, the use of simple bedtime routines will solve sleep problems.
“For others who begin, or continue, waking at night, behaviour techniques are available that — with time, persistence and support — can usually improve sleep behaviours.
“Some children, however, will need paediatric assessment to identify treatable and untreatable underlying problems contributing to sleep disturbances.”
Dr Newman’s lecture was part of the on-going seminar program open to academics, students and interested professionals at the Centre for Applied Studies in Early Childhood.
On Wednesday, May 15, School of Early Childhood associate lecturer Ms Di Le Clercq will speak on Do host teachers benefit from the practicum?
On Wednesday, May 22, School of Early Childhood senior lecturer Dr Nadine McCrea will speak on Food foundations for children: An action research approach.
On Wednesday, May 29, Dr Daphne Glaun from the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne will speak on Differences in mothers’ and professional perception of developmental delay and preschoolers.
The seminars will be held at Kelvin Grove campus, B Block, Room B210b.
For further information phone (07) 3864 3660 or fax (07) 3864 3056.
become depressed, our cognition is affected: we don’t think as well or as quickly, we are irritable, our memories do not work as well and there is a clear link between lack of sleep and post-natal depression, Dr Newman said.
Dr Newman said he emphasised in his talks that sleep deprivation was a known “torture technique”
that could have a drastic effect on people’s physiological well-being.
“It makes us function less well, o u r m o o d i s a f f e c t e d , w e m a y while 62 per cent have one or more
awakenings, and one in 10 have more than three awakenings, he said.
By two years, nearly 50 per cent of children wake at least once, but only five per cent — or one in 20 children
— wake three or more times.
Dr David Newman with his son Matthew . . . “controlled crying” worked for one child, another needed a different tack
When it comes to sleep, even experts lose their share
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ironically some from out of the State.
She said that interest could raise some challenges for the consortium and might even lead to an official n a m e c h a n g e , a s t h e w o r d
“Queensland” was now not really appropriate.
“In 1994, the University of New England and the Southern Cross University made overtures to join, as they could see what we had achieved and wanted to be part of t h e g r o u p , ” D r B o r t h w i c k explained.
“We are closer to them than they are to Sydney and, although we are called a Queensland consortium, we invited their vice-chancellors to send representatives and now they are full members and this is the first year they have had access to our programs.
“We are on the expansion trail again, with representatives from the Sunshine Coast University College a t t e n d i n g o u r m e e t i n g s a s observers, following its request to join the consortium.”
D r B o r t h w i c k s a i d t h e m o s t recent development was an interest shown in the consortium from the Northern Territory University.
“We have had a lot of interest from the Vice-Chancellor of the Northern Territory University and we have now a member of its staff appointed to observer status to attend our meetings,” Dr Borthwick explained.
Dr Borthwick said there was a large commitment required to run t h e c o n s o r t i u m a n d “ t h e m o r e m e m b e r s y o u h a v e , t h e m o r e organisation and administration is involved”.
In a statement in its Inaugural Report, QUT’s Vice-Chancellor P r o f e s s o r D e n n i s G i b s o n congratulates the consortium on all it has achieved to date.
Professor Gibson said its success had been attested by the membership a p p l i c a t i o n s f r o m u n i v e r s i t i e s outside Queensland.
He said he was pleased to see the consortium’s explicit commitment
to social justice principles. This took the form of an examination of social justice principles, Dr Borthwick explained, not only in the staff development practices of member institutions, but also in s p e c i f i c p r o j e c t s w h i c h w o u l d p r o v i d e p o s t g r a d u a t e r e s e a r c h training for supervisors of students f r o m n o n - E n g l i s h s p e a k i n g backgrounds.
Dr Borthwick said that, in the past, programs had been aimed at u p g r a d i n g q u a l i f i c a t i o n s a n d getting people up to speed.
“I think that model is changing now and we are looking at a staff d e v e l o p m e n t c l i m a t e w h i c h r e q u i r e s a h i g h l e v e l o f professionalism from everyone who is involved in higher education,”
she said.
“ T h i s d i d n o t j u s t a p p l y t o academics, I’m sure every member of general staff would say the same thing — that there is a higher level of expectation.”
“You need more problem-solving ability, you need to be more flexible and it doesn’t matter where you work within a university.”
Dr Borthwick said diversity had been an important issue on the consortium’s agenda.
“We have looked at the equity messages and have been promoting social justice issues,” Dr Borthwick said.
“Guidelines on the equity needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff members have been devised and circulated throughout our member institutions.
“These guidelines include how one can encourage the expansion of horizons for people who come into staff development from this background, but they also apply generally to all staff.”
“ W e h a v e t r i e d t o o p e n u p particular areas of concern.”
Dr Borthwick said that, for the first time this year, the consortium was offering a program on postgraduate supervision of non-English speaking background students.
. . . the University of New England and the Southern Cross University made overtures to join, as they could see what we had achieved . . . We are closer to them
than they are to Sydney
by Noel Gentner
R e c e n t c o r r e s p o n d e n c e f r o m a g o v e r n m e n t d e p a r t m e n t h a s lessened concern that potential impacts of the forthcoming Federal Government Budget cutbacks will affect university staff development programs.
The chair of the Queensland H i g h e r E d u c a t i o n S t a f f D e v e l o p m e n t C o n s o r t i u m ( QH ES D C) , Dr J i l l Bo rt h w i c k, r i g h t , w a s c o m m e n t i n g o n t h e response she had received from the D e p a r t m e n t o f E m p l o y m e n t , E d u c a t i o n T r a i n i n g a n d Y o u t h Affairs on behalf of its Minister, Senator Amanda Vanstone.
The department’s letter was in r e s p o n s e t o r e c e i v i n g t h e co n s o r t i u m ’ s I n a u g u r a l R e p o r t which was only recently published.
“ T h e l e t t e r m e n t i o n s t h e incoming Budget cuts and says (universities would) be aware they would be happening, but (it) also reaffirmed the importance of staff development,” Dr Borthwick said.
“We were very pleased to receive a letter that actually went to great lengths, made comments on the r e p o r t a n d m e n t i o n e d t h e importance of higher education staff development.”
D r B o r t h w i c k s a i d s h e i n t e r p r e t e d t h e c o m m e n t a s a n assurance of continuing support for staff development programs.
QHESDC was set up in 1990 when the Commonwealth Staff Development Fund was established, with the fund suppling money for consortium- initiated staff development programs.
D r B o r t h w i c k e x p l a i n e d t h a t QHESDC was a collaborative and ongoing venture which involved r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s f r o m n i n e universities:
• Q u e e n s l a n d U n i v e r s i t y o f Technology;
• University of Queensland;
• Griffith University;
• James Cook University;
• Australian Catholic University;
• U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n Queensland;
• Central Queensland University;
• University of New England; and
• Southern Cross University.
S h e s a i d e a c h o f t h e s e universities participated in staff- d e v e l o p m e n t p r o g r a m s j o i n t l y i n i t i a t e d a n d i m p l e m e n t e d b y representatives on the consortium.
Dr Borthwick confirmed the Academic Staff Development Unit (ASDU) at QUT had taken a leading role in the initial setting up of QHESDC.
QUT has since provided two of its chairs, Professor Phil Candy from June 1991 to March 1993 and Dr Borthwick from September 1994 to the present time. ASDU’s Robyn Daniel has been its convenor during this period.
Dr Borthwick’s term as chair w i l l f i n i s h i n S e p t e m b e r t h i s year.
Ken Curwen from the School of Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineering has represented QUT academic unions on the consortium since its inception.
Dr Borthwick said there had been a r e c e n t d e m a n d f o r m o r e u n i v e r s i t i e s t o j o i n Q H E S D C ,
I think that model is changing now and we are looking at a
staff development climate which requires a high level of professionalism
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After having three children, paediatrician David Newman has thrown away textbook techniques on getting his own children to sleep through the night.
Dr Newman, clinical fellow in child development and child neurology at the Mater Children’s Hospital, spoke about Infant Sleep Patterns and their Impact on Parents at QUT on May 8.
He has advised sleep-deprived parents for years on the latest practical and sensible methods of getting their children to sleep through the night.
But he admits that when it came to his second daughter Emma (now four), he decided against the “controlled crying” technique used on her elder sister, threw away the books and simply got up to comfort her each night.
“It took until she was 20 months before she was sleeping during the night and I got up to her virtually every night during that time,” Dr Newman said.
“So waiting for it to go way means that you will continue to have the sleep disturbance. Sometimes it will go away in a short period by itself — sometimes it will not go away.”
Dr Newman said he stressed to all parents that every child and every family was different and that a child’s sleep pattern was only a problem if it caused a problem.
By one year of age, only 40 per cent of children sleep through the night,
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production, writing, reading, performing interviews and office duties — all these aspects of media work which might give them a job.
“They end up with a graduate certificate from the Australian Ethnic Radio Training Project. This is a nationally accredited certificate so they can go to any community-based station in the country and those credentials will be accepted.
“But what we hope is that, by exposing people to all these skills, they will find one (skill) that will shine out.
It may be that all we do is give people a greater ability to communicate their ideas and to bring their ideas to fruition.”
The project has already borne fruit for one unemployed Chinese journalist who went on to secure a job translating Kerry Packer’s biography The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer into Mandarin.
Mr Taylor said that, within weeks of finishing the QUT-Radio 4EB course, the student had approached the book’s Australian publishers and then
went on to supervise the printing, publication and distribution of the book throughout China.
“I think the course helped him to better present himself and his ideas and he went on to do something he was probably capable of before he came to us — he just needed a little bit more confidence,” Mr Taylor said.
He said two other members of the first intake of the course had gone on to join the 4EB Radio team (see story this page), another had become a pastry cook and a fourth had a cleaning job.
Mr Taylor said the project worked at keeping in touch with course participants who had not yet found work, such as a fish farmer from Poland who has an agricultural science degree not recognised in Australia and a painter from North Vietnam who fled the country in 1975 after alerting Time journalists to the fall of Saigon with the infamous headline “Viet Cong enjoy coffee in Saigon this morning”.
Mr Bowman said he, 4EB manager Geoffrey Suranyi and Mr Taylor had
based the course on the Australian Ethnic Radio Training Program.
“We’ve augmented it quite a bit and we teach them (the students) a whole range of things — going out, doing interviews, cutting interviews, reading news, getting stories from AAP, publishing a weekly newsletter for the station and putting together a weekly radio program,” he explained.
“The idea is that, if you teach people communication skills through the medium of broadcast, then their employability will increase — particularly in the migrant area where, obviously, language and communication are going to be two of their biggest barriers.
“We believe that, with more than one language, these people are a valuable resource and that, if you can get them going — get them on their way — you will find this to be so.
“While this program has got potential for employers, it also helps get people into the Australian culture and get them going — workwise and socially.”
Students visit QUT during the week to attend selected School of Media and Journalism lectures, to use the AAP wire service, the computerised newsroom and its radio broadcast studios.
Course participants are referred to the program through the Stones C o r n e r C o m m o n w e a l t h Employment Service and all have been seeking full-time work for more than a year.
Mr Taylor said students who had b e e n t h r o u g h t h e p r o g r a m a p p e a r e d t o h a v e a l o t m o r e confidence in themselves and their abilities.
“They certainly come to us pretty dejected, disappointed in life generally
— they like the life here (in Australia) but they just feel they are wasting it,”
he said.
“These people are definitely not dole bludgers.
“These are people who want to work, but just can’t get work for various reasons.”
Armando Soto-Vieira and Carlos Cañas are two highly skilled migrants who have shouldered a myriad of menial jobs to support their families.
Between them they have worked as psychiatric nurses, factory workers, leaflet distributors and cleaners in their bid to get out of the dole queue and into full-time work.
Both will attest that enthusiasm to get a job equal to their talents is simply not enough in today’s competitive job market.
The fact that — particularly in Mr Cañas’ case — their English skills are perceived to be less-than-perfect has been a major liability for both men.
But not so imperfect that, since completing the innovative New Horizons course (see story this page) last year, they couldn’t become broadcasters.
Today they work part-time at Radio 4EB, the ethnic community station based in Kangaroo Point.
Both are relishing the chance to use their New Horizons skills and both hope their 4EB experience may lead to full-time jobs in visual arts or the media.
When qualifications and even experience are simply ‘not enough’ to snare a job
The confidence of long-term unemployed migrants is being restored thanks to an intensive QUT-Radio 4EB broadcasting course designed to help them to find full-time jobs.
Migrants from Europe, Africa and Asia have been brought together in the six-month course which hones communication skills in order to get them off the unemployment roundabout.
The innovative project was initiated and designed by QUT School of Media and Journalism lecturer Leo Bowman in conjunction with media consultant Robert Taylor.
Mr Bowman said many of the 11 students in the current course were highly skilled, highly motivated teachers, architects and journalists whose qualifications were not recognised by Australian employers.
Others, he said, had been unable to break down the barrier of prejudice that was often the lot of those with less-than-perfect English skills or a different skin colour.
Some had fled war zones or civil unrest and found hope for a new life in Australia dashed by a ruthlessly competitive job market, he said.
All of the students agreed, however, they had found a haven of companionship and encouragement through “New Horizons”, the course which is also co-ordinated by Mr Taylor.
The New Horizons project was sponsored by the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA).
Mr Bowman said that, five days a week, the 11 students get to write newsletters, conduct interviews, produce radio programs and improve their English.
Mr Taylor said 60 per cent of the first 1995 intake of students had already found jobs and he believed the second intake would enjoy even higher employment success.
“In the first course — just before Christmas —we had three Vietnamese boat people with a very basic understanding of English. We had to develop English lessons to bring them up to speed, which I think we did quite successfully,” Mr Taylor said.
“We also had a Hungarian woman who came into the course pregnant, so we knew that, in the middle of it, she would be having her baby. Which she did. She was the only one who left the course — and somewhat reluctantly.
“We are not just teaching people to be broadcasters, we are exposing them to all aspects of broadcasting:
Co-designer of New Horizons Leo Bowman
(L-R) Mario Flores, Walter Anikieff, Maha Prayag and Jaime Moscoso keep an eye on the production console while Robert Taylor demonstrates
Former cameraman and course member Carlos Cañas . . . working at Radio 4EB as a sound technician has been a dream come true
Students explore New Horizons
and media consultant Robert Taylor
— provides a chance for the students to learn the multitude of skills that radio broadcasting requires.
The joint QUT-Radio 4EB course is sponsored by the Department of Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DEETYA).
Importantly, the six-month project also includes weekly English lessons to hone up the students’ command of the language — a stumbling block for many.
Some of the students have remarkable stories to tell about their pasts.
Just under a dozen students from 10 different countries sit around the large table in the 4EB Radio newsroom, united in the glow of hard work and shared experience.
The room is a hive of activity and camaraderie as the students learn new skills and rediscover their sense of dignity and self worth.
All have been looking for full- time work for more than a year — some much longer.
The 11 are now part of the “New Horizons” course — designed by QUT School of Media and Journalism lecturer Leo Bowman
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“I was interested in broadcasting, but I didn’t think it was possible to break into it until I did this course,”
Mr Cañas said.
Now he is beginning to hope that his dream of a safe and secure life for his family in Australia may be realised.
Mr Soto-Vieira, 47, has been appointed as a part-time assistant to Radio 4EB New Horizons co-ordinator Robert Taylor.
He shows New Horizons students how to use newsroom computers and the Internet, sub-edits the weekly New Horizon newsletter, takes students out
on interviews and gives them reporting tips.
Mr Soto-Vieira is working on a photographic display about the course for the Language Expo at the Brisbane Exhibition Centre in July.
And, as a long-term migrant living in Australia, he is an expert on difficulties with language and culture that more-recently arrived migrants may experience.
Mr Soto-Vieira was a student in 1973 when he fled Chile in fear of his life after the right-wing government forces orchestrated a military dictatorship.
Since arriving in Australia shortly after, he has had little success in getting the sort of full-time work he would like.
Instead he had worked as a factory worker and as a psychiatric nurse, before studying for and obtaining a masters degree in fine arts from Sydney University. He has also worked as a tutor.
“It was not so difficult to get unskilled work, but I believe there is prejudice . . . and sometimes things like my linguistic skills and appearance have stood in the way of getting the type of (academic) jobs I am trained for,” Mr Soto-Vieira said.
For Mr Cañas, 38, the job as a sound technician at Radio 4EB was a dream come true. Previously the only work he could find to support his wife, daughter and elderly parents was cleaning offices and delivering leaflets.
He worked as a cameraman in South America before fleeing to Australia from San Salvador in fear of his life in 1995 as the civil war between the army and left-wing guerillas escalated.
His home in the village of Suchitoto was burned to the ground by neighbours 14 years earlier.
Young Somalian refugee’s struggle goes on
S h e i k h L i b a n , n o w 2 4 , f l e d S o m a l i a a f t e r h i s f a t h e r a n d h i s s i s t e r w e r e s h o t i n 1 9 8 8 i n a c i v i l w a r t h a t t o r e t h r o u g h h i s c o u n t r y .
I n a s t o r y o f r e m a r k a b l e determination, he fled to Papua New Guinea where he remained a political refugee for four years.
Upon being told by authorities he had to return to Somalia, he and a friend bought a dinghy and rowed for two days and two nights
— with no compass or provisions
— from Port Moresby to Australia.
“We were sick, suffering from the sun and the salt water — we really lost hope because we didn’t know where
Broadcasting gives award entrant fresh designs on the future
m a s t e r s i n e n v i r o n m e n t a l m a n a g e m e n t a t G r i f f i t h University.
“When we applied to come to Australia we were told that as sure as anything we would get work here,” she said.
“We were aware of the high unemployment in Australia, but we were still hopeful that since, we are qualified and we have so many skills, that we would find something.
“But that didn’t happen.”
Mrs Prayag said she hoped the New Horizons course would lead to a full-time job.
“Every country has problems and unemployment is everywhere i n t h e w o r l d , n o t o n l y i n Australia.
“So it’s just luck and a matter of time and patience. That’s it,”
she said.
we were going. We just let the boat take us anywhere it wanted to,” he recalled.
L u c k i l y , w i t h i n s i g h t o f t h e Australian coastline the pair were spotted by a passing fishing boat w h i c h a l e r t e d t h e l o c a l c o a s t guard.
Sheikh Liban then spent three months in Wacol Maximum Security Jail and was shuttled back and forth between New Guinea and Australia three times — each country refusing to accept him — before Australia finally granted him asylum three years ago.
His mother has since joined him in Australia.
“I have been looking for work everywhere. I have had no luck in getting a job. I never had a job in Somalia: I was just in high school. I played soccer,” Sheikh Liban said.
Maya Prayag . . . luck, time and patience
Sheikh Liban . . . hopeful for work
M a h a P r a y a g , 3 5 , h a s t w o degrees to her name but works a s a p a r t - t i m e k i t c h e n h a n d a t McDonald’s.
Mrs Prayag, from Hyderabad in India, came to Australia with her husband and six-year-old son in 1994.
Textile quality expert flips burgers for a living
S h e i s h i g h l y q u a l i f i e d i n textiles and quality control, but has been unable to find full-time work here in Australia.
A l t h o u g h s h e h a s e x t e n s i v e experience as a primary school t e a c h e r a t h e r s o n ’ s s c h o o l i n I n d i a , w i t h o u t a B a c h e l o r o f E d u c a t i o n d e g r e e from an Australian tertiary institution, she is not eligible to teach in Australian schools.
M r s P r a y a g s a i d h e r h u s b a n d — a s c i e n t i s t w i t h 1 3 y e a r s ’ e x p e r i e n c e , seven of those with P i o n e e r O v e r s e a s Hybrid Seeds — had also been unable to secure work and had d e c i d e d t o d o h i s
Jaime Moscoso, 45, worked as a junior draftsman for six years because his qualifications as an architect were not recognised in Australia.
From Bolivia, Mr Moscoso migrated to Australia 10 years ago to join family already here.
He set up his own business as an architect four years ago, but he has often gone without work.
However, since securing full registration as an architect 18 months ago, he has already made his mark on the local industry.
A house Mr Moscoso designed on Bribie Island has been nominated in the Sunshine Coast section
of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects 1996 Design Awards.
T h e j u d g e s w i l l a n n o u n c e t h e w i n n e r o f t h e competition in June.
“I apply for jobs in architectural offices, but they don’t need very experienced architects,” Mr Moscoso said. “They only need very simple draftsmen, and that’s it.
“The reason why I came here — the New Horizons course — is because I know this is an ethnic radio station and it is the best way to be in contact with people from South America and overseas.”
Jaime Moscoso . . . a decade after leaving Bolivia he’s starting to
make his mark in his chosen profession and broadcasting will allow him
to reach other South Americans
Special reports by Andrea Hammond • Photographs by Sharyn Rosewarne
Course graduate Armando Soto-Vieira . . . now working as Robert Taylor’s assistant on the New Horizons course
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